Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 2 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 3 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |
| 4 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 5 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 6 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 7 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 8 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 9 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 10 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
| 11 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 12 | She saw too , in her mind 's eye , the heaving bulk of the buffalo bull struggling in the grass in its death throes , saw once more the blindly charging cow and the ragged black vultures flopping down out of the sky , and all these images crowding through her mind heightened the vague sense of turbulence that was growing inside her with the gathering storm . |
| 13 | Daak was waiting for her beyond the next upright . |
| 14 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |
| 15 | Uncle Alfred was waiting for her at the entrance to the nest when she arrived . |
| 16 | The manager was waiting for her at the desk , deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon . |
| 17 | Luke was waiting for her at the bottom of the staircase , fifteen minutes later , looking — surprise , surprise ! — extremely impatient . |
| 18 | Fernando was waiting for her at the kerbside , leaning against his white convertible Mercedes . |
| 19 | He was waiting for her in the lounge . |
| 20 | She put down the receiver , feeling much happier , and even enjoyed the lukewarm haddock that was waiting for her in the kitchen . |
| 21 | Rune was waiting for her in the foyer as she stepped out of the lift . |
| 22 | No doubt he was waiting for her in the foyer , champing at her non-appearance . |
| 23 | Mike was waiting for her in the lobby when she came down , and she was pleased to see that he too had dressed as informally as possible in deference to the humidity . |
| 24 | He was waiting for her in the hall . |
| 25 | Tracey was waiting for her in the pub . |
| 26 | If it had been Jamie Baird who was waiting for her in the drawing-room , would she have been so angry ? |
| 27 | JENNY was waiting for her in the lounge of the Black Lion occupying herself with an evening newspaper . |
| 28 | Guido was waiting for her in the hallway , his face as black as thunder . |
| 29 | She clenched her jaw to kill the sultry languor that was stealing over her at the sight of his thick lashes lying in two black arcs on his gilded cheekbones . |
| 30 | At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear . |